The answers shown here are not necessarily the same provided as part of the 2009 PhilPapers Survey. These answers can be updated at any time.
Question | Answer | Comments | |
A priori knowledge: yes or no? | Accept another alternative | I accept not Kantian apriorism but Lonergan's view of it | |
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? | Accept an intermediate view | The Aristotle-Aquinas synthesis avoids this dualism | |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? | Skip | | |
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? | Accept an intermediate view | both are necessary; they complement one another | |
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? | Skip | | |
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? | Accept: non-skeptical realism | | |
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? | Accept more than one | I accept free will | |
God: theism or atheism? | Accept: theism | | |
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? | Accept an intermediate view | I accept and argue for an epistemological realism | |
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? | Accept an intermediate view | I accept a contextualized realism | |
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? | Accept another alternative | | |
Logic: classical or non-classical? | Accept an intermediate view | I accept all viable logics | |
Mental content: internalism or externalism? | Accept an intermediate view | both externalism and internalism apply. They are not "isms" | |
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? | Accept: moral realism | | |
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? | Accept another alternative | I accept Aristotle as well as modern views of nature | |
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? | Skip | | |
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? | Accept an intermediate view | cognitivism is not an ism. Cognition is valid | |
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? | Accept an intermediate view | the internal and external are valid, not "isms" | |
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? | Insufficiently familiar with the issue | | |
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? | Skip | | |
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? | Lean toward: sense-datum theory | | |
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? | Accept an intermediate view | we need a viable bridge-building interdisciplinary method | |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? | Accept: communitarianism | acceot it not as an ism but as needed reality of community-building | |
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? | Accept an intermediate view | Frege framed the questions which need answers | |
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? | Accept: scientific realism | | |
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? | Accept: survival | | |
Time: A-theory or B-theory? | Skip | | |
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch? | The question is too unclear to answer | | |
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? | Accept: epistemic | | |
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? | Accept: metaphysically possible | | |